• The Federal

    Features

    What Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker win means for Indian literature in translation

    Nawaid Anjum
    21 May 2025 6:36 PM IST

    From Tomb of Sand to Heart Lamp, Geetanjali Shree and Banu Mushtaq — along with their translators — are widening the door for Indian-language literature

    Banu Mushtaq
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    Sentimental Value
    Films

    Cannes 2025: 10 standout films from around the world you need to know about

    21 May 2025 11:53 AM IST
    Aranyer Din Ratri-Cannes
    Films

    India at Cannes: Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri plays to a full house

    20 May 2025 3:35 PM IST
    Nuclear Now
    Features

    Oliver Stone’s Nuclear Now: How nuke energy could help cool a warming planet

    20 May 2025 1:25 PM IST
    Satyajit Ray

    Why Satyajit Ray’s films continue to touch our lives even today

    18 May 2025 1:36 PM IST
    Ranthambore

    Live bait to tigress queen Machli comes back to bite Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

    17 May 2025 6:43 AM IST
    Banu Mushtaq

    Banu Mushtaq interview: ‘Muslim women are capable of fighting their own battles’

    16 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kannada literature

    P. Lankesh, Poornachandra Tejaswi: Two greats of Kannada literature, found in translation

    14 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Bengaluru waterscapes

    How Bengaluru lost touch with its waters and why getting it back is urgent

    13 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Recreated Kannagi idol during the Chitra Pournami festival, which falls on May 12

    Chitra Pournami: Tamil epic heroine Kannagi’s idol portion missing for 50 years

    12 May 2025 10:40 AM IST
    Garm Hava

    10 films that look at India-Pakistan relations with a different lens

    9 May 2025 10:32 AM IST
    Chithirai festival at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai

    How history, mythology, culture converge at Madurai's Chithirai festival

    8 May 2025 3:52 PM IST
    The Piprahwa Gems

    Piprahwa Gems: Sotheby’s halts sale of Buddha’s jewels; can India get them back?

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    G S Amur: The writer-critic who opened Kannada literature to the world

    8 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Last of Us

    How The Last of Us turns an apocalypse into a meditation on care, moral survival

    Anvita Singh
    6 May 2025 8:30 AM IST

    The Last of Us, HBO’s Emmy-winning drama, lays bare the emotional wreckage of a collapsing world, where the endgame is not survival, but retaining...

    Why Chennai

    Will Chennai’s butter biscuits melt away under pressure of packaged snacks?

    4 May 2025 9:10 AM IST
    Indian teenagers

    How virtual world is driving India’s teenagers to anxiety and depression

    4 May 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Palestine

    Delhi exhibition showcases works of global artists in solidarity with Palestine

    3 May 2025 7:21 PM IST
    mayonnaise

    Why Tamil Nadu’s ban on raw-egg mayonnaise over health risks misses the point

    1 May 2025 4:40 PM IST
    Chef Shun Sato-Japanese-food

    Chef Shun Sato interview: What India can learn from Japan’s minimalist cuisine

    1 May 2025 2:20 PM IST
    Banu Mushtaq, author of Hearth Lamp

    How Kannada writer Banu Mushtaq shines a light on Muslim women’s struggles

    30 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Phule-Ananth-Mahadevan

    Ananth Mahadevan interview: ‘I want my films to speak the language of global cinema’

    27 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Sky is Dirty-Spacejunk

    The Dirty Sky: Filmmaker OP Srivastava on why space junk is earth’s next big crisis

    26 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Magen David (Shield of David) synagogue

    What Kolkata’s synagogues reveal about the City of Joy’s Jewish heritage

    24 April 2025 11:00 AM IST
    Jeyamohan talks about his memoir, Of Men, Women and Witches

    Jeyamohan interview: ‘Devastated by my mother’s death, I found refuge in writing’

    23 April 2025 2:01 PM IST
    Bookstores

    World Book Day: Bookshops in India will vanish unless government steps in

    23 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Latika Katt

    How Latika Katt chiselled a bold, modernist language for Indian sculpture

    20 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    AI in films

    How Artificial Intelligence is shaping the future of Indian filmmaking

    19 April 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Food-FOMO-Restaurant booking

    How to eat out in Bangalore without losing your mind (or the table)

    17 April 2025 5:56 PM IST
    Parvathi Nayar

    Parvathi Nayar on how art helps us think about what it means to be human

    15 April 2025 9:08 PM IST
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